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Cynthia Milota

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Cynthia is an Assistant Editor and Staff Writer covering the Circular Economy. In her 30 year workplace strategy practice, she focused on employees and experience-based environments. Cynthia holds the Circular Economy Institute’s Built Environment Specialist certification and has extensive experience in Post Occupancy Evaluations. In addition to roles as a strategy and change consultant, she also served as the workplace strategist for a global financial services firm. She has published and presented her research at academic and professional conferences, held adjunct faculty positions, served on juries and editorial review teams. Cynthia is an active member in professional organizations including the Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) where she has presented her workplace and circular economy research. She was also Adjunct Faculty at College of DuPage and Columbia College Chicago, teaching Workplace Studio, Professional Practice and Sustainability Design courses.

RESEAT & Cradle to Cradle Partnership: Keeping Furniture out of Landfills

This new partnership will change the way commercial furniture is managed to reduce waste and keep valuable materials in use.

Waste Not – Want Not: Embracing Circularity in Workplace Cafés

Circular operations are not about reducing waste. They are about designing a system where waste is not created in the first place. Here's how.

Circular Economy Simplified: A Practical Guide for Impact

WDM staff writer Cynthia Milota defines the Circular Economy and why it is important for the industry to implement now.

Implementing the Circular Economy: A Practical Guide for Impact

WDM's Circular Economy expert, Cynthia Milota challenges corporations to evaluate their circular economy and how to get started on their journey. 

A Zero Waste Case Study: UC Berkeley’s Chou Hall

Cynthia Milota sat down with Jessica Heiges to discuss what it takes to design and operate a zero waste building.

Circularity 24: A Conference with a Conscience

WDM’s Cynthia Milota shares key learnings and a call to action from the Circularity 24 Conference in May 2024. 

Tarkett’s ReStart® Recycling Program: Keeping Old Flooring Out of the Landfill

With Tarkett's ReStart Program, recycling old flooring does not have to be costly or a schedule constraint.

Hindsight is not always 2020: Why Organizations are Stuck & the Strategies to Move On

Ware Malcomb's Cynthia Milota and Jinger Tapia explore three strategies for leaders to move beyond office nostalgia.

Less Bad is Not Good Enough: the Circular Economy and Office Furniture • Chicago Recap

In this interactive conversation, panelists and attendees explored office furniture from a circular economy (CE) perspective

WORKTECH Chicago 2023: People, Place, Pilots and Pivots

Ware Malcomb’s Cynthia Milota and Work Design’s Michelle Weiss share the 4 key themes from the WORKTECH Conference in Chicago in July 2023.

Circularity in Chicago & Beyond

Here's our recap of WDM, IFMA-Chicago, and the Workplace Evolutionaries - Chicago Hub's recent event featuring experts discussing circularity. 

2023: Trust the Essential Metric

Cynthia Milota and Mary Cheval of Ware Malcomb predict that measuring trust on the organizational, team and manager levels will be fundamental to establishing a sustainable hybrid work model.

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